The state law is clear—much of the information required to be submitted to register to vote is supposed to be confidential.
What’s also clear is that the Dunleavy administration improperly handed over confidential information on hundreds of thousands Alaskans to the U.S. Department of Justice simply because the Trump administration demanded it.
Read MoreSen. Dan Sullivan is trying to rewrite history about the Republican One Big Beautiful Bill Act, pretending that a 25-page form letter his office unleashed on July 28, 2025 didn’t use the letters OBBBA 101 times, and that he was already calling it the Working Families Tax Cuts Act then.
The Sullivan letter was rewritten in mid-November to erase all evidence of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act name, keeping the July 28 date and substituting the letters WFTCA in 101 places.
Read MoreThe Alaska Commission on Judicial Conduct’s handling of the case that led to a proposed reprimand of Nome Superior Court Judge Romano DiBenedetto—and not more serious disciplinary action—has led the chief administrator of the court system in Nome to allege that the judge’s actions “are being swept under the rug at worst or whitewashed at best.”
Read MoreBefore Rep. Frank Tomaszewski and the 11 others utter another word about pumping up the 2026 dividend, they need to identify budget cuts and tax increases that total $1.5 billion to avoid a deficit. For some reason they have forgotten to do that again this year.
Read More“So I think you were the guy,” an irritated Sen. Dan Sullivan said to Sen. Forrest Dunbar Wednesday, “that asked me last year about Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security.”
“When you asked me, I said ‘We’re not gonna cut Medicaid.’”
“You know who cut Medicaid for Alaska? Chuck Schumer. All right. That’s a fact. I wish that you and others could have gone to Schumer and said hey why are you cutting Medicaid for Alaska?” Sullivan said.
It’s not a fact.
Read MoreSen. Forrest Dunbar again asked Sen. Dan Sullivan a good question, one of the six questions allowed before the legislative discussion was cut off, leaving 17 questions unaddressed Wednesday.
“You’ve said yes to Trump many times. I’m wondering if you’re willing to say no?” Dunbar asked.
Sullivan never answered the question.
Read MoreThere will not be any questions that make Sen. Dan Sullivan uncomfortable when he speaks to the Legislature. And there won’t be many questions.
I’m not buying the cover story that Sullivan would love to answer more than four questions from select legislators, but he has a flight to catch. He wants to make sure he has time to answer at least one question from each caucus, the cover story goes.
Senate President Sen. Gary Stevens and House Speaker Rep. Bryce Edgmon should allow for an open discussion and start the proceedings early, at 10 a.m. instead of 11 a.m., if Sullivan has a flight to catch.
Read MoreSen. Dan Sullivan is demanding that legislators not ask him more than four questions in total when he speaks to the Legislature Wednesday, one from each caucus.
The first question to candidate Sullivan should be, “Why are you limiting questions this way? No one else representing Alaska in Congress has ever been afraid to answer questions from the Legislature.”
I think the answer is that he thinks he will be asked questions that he is not comfortable in answering.
Read MoreHow would Abraham Lincoln deal with the Permanent Fund Dividend?
The brightest Republican minds in Juneau put that question to the legions of Republican candidates hoping to become governor.
They didn’t ask the governor wannabes to opine on whether George Washington and Jesus would be OK with a $1,000 dividend. Or if the Great Emancipator would have liked the Bad Bunny halftime show.
Read MoreAnyone who reads the memo Dahlstrom approved with the Department of Justice can see that she agreed to give personal data on all Alaska voters—going far beyond the information that is available to the public—and approved allowing the Department of Justice to give her instructions on who should be removed from the voter rolls.
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